A pilot survey of patient-initiated assaults on medical students during clinical clerkship

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 350-353

  Waddell, Andrea E ^a,b   Katz, Mark R ^a   Lofchy, Jodi ^a   Bradley, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CANADA; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; VIOLENCE;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; HUMANS; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PILOT PROJECTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33644818744     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.29.4.350     Document Type: Article

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